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Here, have a little #GoodNews on the #environment/#conservation front: news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-e... #RainForest #RestorationEcology #Biodiversity #EndangeredSpecies #Ecuador #nature

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Fish movement in Panama Canal Zone…

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Scout knows how to relax on the weekend.

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Pancreatic cancer killed my mom back in 2010. This rules.

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Action fatigue is real, but so is our power to create change. We built Action Lab to make it easier to find, track, and contribute action items that move science and policy forward in the midst of the news firehose. Try it out now, and stay tuned for a bigger launch! airtable.com/app3mMFCCzpp...

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Every time @skypeascientist.bsky.social gets a new monthly supporter, I literally heave a sigh of relief. The last 2 years ~1/2 of our income has come from merch, which is okay, but really exhausting when that work is to support the main work. Become a donor here: givebutter.com/SupportSAS25

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White hydrogen. www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/c...

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This katydid from Ecuador has been affectionately named by photographers "candy-cane katydid". The truth is... we are not sure which species it is. One possibility is a Harroweria nymph, but until someone witnesses the transformation into the adult stage it will remain a mystery.

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Science is the keystone of American prosperity. Dismantling the scientific infrastructure of the United States will have catastrophic consequences for all Americans.

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Went to our favorite bookstore, Read Between the Lynes, in Woodstock, Illinois, for a children’s book reading and picked up a bunch of new books for little man. Love being able to support our local bookstores. This one even has its own newsletter!

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Becki and I live in unincorporated Crystal Lake, so we do not pay taxes for the public library. Today, we joined joined the library. We believe in our community/public services and are glad to support them.

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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

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I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council

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The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Winter wonderland.

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Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Public Statement on Recent Attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives Sincerely, the Executive Board of the ASIH (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) #TeamFish #TeamHerps #ASIH www.asih.org/2025-asih-ex...

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Almost got run over by a herd of five deer tonight! Was entering the garage when the herd galloped around the corner of the house on to the driveway and passed right by me. Love having them around! Photo of one from trail cam a few minutes before they ran.

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Registration for Evolution 2025 is now open! Come join us virtually from May 29-30, and/or in-person in Athens, GA from June 20-24. @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social #Evol2025 www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...

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A map of megafauna predation in the Mediterranean Sea estimates that 4.1 million individual large fish, mammals, reptiles, and birds consume 1.6 million tons of prey each summer, about 70% of which is eaten by dolphins and whales. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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I'm reading Macroevolutionaries right now about the Three Musketeers: Elisabeth Vrba, Stephen J Gould and Niles Eldredge. Sorry to hear this. cup.columbia.edu/book/macroev...

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We should all be using our best SciComm skills to talk about the impacts of these cuts. Many students in my class this morning had not heard this news, and none understood how indirect costs worked (because who does, outside of academia?) Several came up after class to thank me for the explanation.

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New paper led by @glom.bsky.social! "Unprecedented female female bias in the aye-aye, a highly unusual lemur from Madagascar" 1/ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Good luck everyone.

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Mitochondria may hold the key to curing diabetes "Researchers at the University of Michigan used mice to show that dysfunctional mitochondria trigger a response that affects the maturation and function of β-cells." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Do you remember? Within-generation and transgenerational heat stress memory of recurring marine heatwaves in threespine stickleback by Spence-Jones et al. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Another week is done, finished with my half of general biology. Tomorrow is another day.

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NIH award funding, jobs, and $1.89 BILLION of economic activity supported in the red state of Missouri.

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Witnessing a Florida panther is a special treat, though one of Florida's most iconic species, only around 120-230 remain in existence. We've been fighting to help this species for years and our fight continues until their numbers are recovered and steady. Learn more ➡️ biodiv.us/3CxtCBk

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Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

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Abstract Submission site for #JMIH2025 #JMIH25 is now available. Deadline MARCH 25, 2025 #JointMeetingofIchthyologistsandHerpetologists #AmericanSocietyofIchthyologistsandHerpetologists #ASIH burkclients.com/JMIH/meeting...

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SICB is back! Please follow the society's new BlueSky account: @sicb.bsky.social SICB recognizes that the scientific enterprise is only successful because of the people performing that science. Without those people, science and all of the political and economic strength that it provides, stops.

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Here is a grape seed sized nugget of a weevil for #WeevilWednesday. This tiny friend was found on the underside of a large banana leaf. #inverts (Subfamily Conoderinae) Tatama National Park Colombia

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Now in hardcover! Standard Methods for Sampling North American Freshwater Fishes, second edition, is now available in hardcover in the AFS Bookstore: fisheries.org/bookstore/al...

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Check out the gear on this Hemipsilichthys papillatus (MCP 39539), a member of the 'primitive' loricariid subfamily Delturinae from the Paraíba do Sul drainage in southeastern Brazil. It has large cheek odontodes like the more diverse Hypostominae subfamily, but it can't evert them.

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@lizneeley.bsky.social is publishing a weekly newsletter to track the ongoing attacks in science and higher ed. If you want to keep abreast without drowning in the news, I recommend it: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

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I think we can all agree the vibes are not wonderful. You know what always makes my day better? Getting a cute card in the mail from a friend. I propose that we send valentines this year for vibe enhancement. Skype a Scientist has got just the pack. Get 'em at squidfacts.bigcartel.com

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Applications due Monday for the T. H. Huxley Award, which recognizes high-quality evolution education resources! The recipient will have the opportunity to attend and present their work at the NABT meeting in October or #Evol2025 in June. Apply by Feb. 3! http://bit.ly/2kP2pPM

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Good morning world!

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Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #PopGen

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Happy Year of the Snake! 🐍 The Lake Erie Water Snake - once near the point of extinction before being delisted from the federal Endangered Species List in 2011 - is a #GreatLakes success story about the power of public education and habitat protection #LunarNewYear blog.nature.org/2017/01/23/r...

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The FT reports OpenAI suspects DeepSeek of "a potential breach of intellectual property." As a columnist for NYT, which is suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, and the author of nine books OpenAI apparently used to train its model, I couldn't possibly comment. www.ft.com/content/a0df...

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New online: Review from Hays et al, "Status, trends and conservation of global sea turtle populations". Free online for 1 month, download it now! go.nature.com/40QgzE9

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American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

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The National Science Foundation cancelled over 60 grant review panels today, effectively grinding funding of new projects to a halt. The so-far indefinite pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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@mtanichthys.bsky.social

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I hadn't posted about this paper before, but over the summer I added unbending features (sensu TPSutil) for fish landmark data to my package LOST. Just sent an update to CRAN to make unbend.tps.poly work for 2D and 3D data, planning to update unbend.spine too onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Join the Missouri Botanical Garden! If you are interested in conservation, restoration, or plant systematics in Latin America, this is a great opportunity to work at an institution driven by a passion for describing and conserving plants. One more week to apply! jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/mbg/CA...

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